Please make an application promptly if you are a good match for this role due to high levels of interest.
This is a standalone, hands-on accounts position with responsibility for the day-to-day finance function through to management accounts. It would suit someone who enjoys being close to the detail and is comfortable processing transactions themselves rather than overseeing a larger finance team.
The role reports directly to the senior leadership team and works closely with colleagues across the wider business.
The business has a long trading history, a stable customer base and operates within a busy commercial environment with a high level of day to day transactions.
Key responsibilities
- Manage the sales and purchase ledgers, including invoice processing, payments, credit notes and reconciliations.
- Complete bookkeeping and maintain accurate accounting records using Sage 50.
- Manage credit control, customer accounts, credit limits and debtor collections.
- Process supplier payments and reconcile supplier accounts, bank accounts and petty cash.
- Prepare monthly profit and loss and balance sheet reporting.
- Complete VAT returns and support payroll, pensions and associated HMRC requirements.
- Manage overseas supplier payments, foreign currency transactions and foreign exchange requirements.
- Monitor cash flow, margins, costs and other key financial information for the Directors.
- Maintain appropriate financial controls and identify opportunities to improve accounting processes and reduce errors.
- Support stock, purchasing and wider commercial administration where this overlaps with the finance function.
Candidate profile
- Recent hands-on experience managing transactional accounts and bookkeeping within an SME environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Sage 50 Accounts and confidence using the system independently.
- Comfortable processing purchase and sales invoices, payments and bank reconciliations as part of the day-to-day role.
- Experience producing accounts through to management accounts level.
- Confident managing credit control and dealing directly with customers and suppliers.
- Experience of VAT, payroll and ideally foreign currency or international supplier payments. xgikmsk
- Well organised and able to prioritise competing deadlines across transactional finance, payments, VAT, payroll and month-end.
- Comfortable working autonomously in a bus Please click on the apply button to read the full job description
Accounts Manager in Maidstone employer: IPS Group
Join a dynamic and supportive team at our well-established insurance brokerage, where your expertise as an Account Executive/Account Director will be valued and nurtured. We offer a collaborative work culture that prioritises professional development, providing you with opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career in the thriving commercial insurance sector. Located in a vibrant area, our company also promotes a healthy work-life balance, ensuring that you can thrive both personally and professionally.
